David Noel Freedman, 85; Bible scholar and general editor of the Anchor Bible Commentary series (April 8)

Nona Beamer, 84; authority on Hawaiian culture and matriarch of the musical Beamer family (April 10)

Robert O. Collins, 75; UC Santa Barbara historian and expert on the Sudan who co-wrote the 2006 book "Alms for Jihad: Charity and Terrorism in the Islamic World" (April 11)

Dagmar Barnouw, 72; USC professor who wrote provocative works about the aftermath of World War II and what she called the sanctification of Holocaust survivors, the "politics of not-forgetting Nazi evil" and the idea of collective German guilt (May 14)

Paula Gunn Allen, 68; feminist who advocated for the inclusion of Native American voices in the mainstream of American literature (May 29)

Charles Moskos, 74; sociologist who was an expert on the attitudes of servicemen and women and helped formulate the "don't ask, don't tell" policy toward gays in the military (May 31)

Leonid Hurwicz, 90; co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel Prize in economics for developing a theory that helps explain how buyers and sellers can maximize their gains (June 24)

Madeleine Stoner, 70; professor of social work at USC who was an expert on homelessness and advised policymakers on how to prevent it (July 13)

Randy Pausch, 47; terminally ill professor whose earnest farewell lecture at Carnegie Mellon University became an Internet phenomenon and bestselling book that turned him into a symbol for living and dying well (July 25)

Georgi Kitov, 65; Bulgarian archaeologist who was an expert on the ancient Thracian culture (Sept. 14)

Charles H. Whitebread, 65; USC professor who developed a national reputation as an expert on the Supreme Court (Sept. 16)

John E. Taylor, 87; scholar known for his encyclopedic knowledge of World War II intelligence records and his ability to find the most arcane material in the National Archives, where he worked for 63 years (Sept. 20)

Frances Lomas Feldman, 95; USC professor and social work pioneer who conducted a groundbreaking study in the 1970s that showed cancer patients faced discrimination in the workplace (Sept. 30)

Enid Hart Douglass, 81; researcher and educator who was largely responsible for developing the oral history program at Claremont Graduate University and led it for more than three decades (Oct. 17)

Albert Boime, 75; art historian who evaluated art in its social and political contexts (Oct. 18)